![]() It looks like every other Friday/Saturday grid I've ever seen. Even with the awful " AH, ME" waiting there to greet / jeer me at the end (seriously, shoot that answer into the sun), I still finished this one full of good will and hope for the future of crossword humanity. Literal "omg"s and "wows," in all sections of the grid. ![]() OK, now that disclosures are out of the way: This is the best Saturday puzzle I've done in some time. (wikipedia)Ībout today's constructors: Doug is an old friend. ![]() In winter, it forms huge flocks on open land, particularly arable land and mud-flats. The nest and young are defended noisily and aggressively against all intruders, up to and including horses and cattle. It is a wader that breeds on cultivated land and other short vegetation habitats. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America, especially after storms, as in the Canadian sightings after storms in December 1927 and in January 1966. Lowland breeders in westernmost areas of Europe are resident. It migrates mainly by day, often in large flocks. It is highly migratory over most of its extensive range, wintering further south as far as North Africa, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of China. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia. The northern lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus ), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily.
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